The crew of the P-3 that was towing the drone was immediately transferred to new assignments. The P-3's number 3 engine showed signs of damage from the explosion of TWA 800 and maintenance records on the engine were suppressed by the Navy. Three other submarines participating in GLOBAL YANKEE '96 were also ordered out of the area. They were the USS Albuquerque, the USS Augusta, and the USS Trepang. The FBI accounted for all missiles aboard the three submarines but not those on board the Seawolf, which was not yet officially commissioned into service and which had just completed it sea trials a little over a week earlier.
Our source confirmed that US Navy SEAL team members were dispatched to recover TWA 800 wreckage with the sole intent being the alteration of the debris to fit the story of a defective fuel tank explosion. Two U.S. Navy salvage ships, the USS Grasp and USS Grapple, were sent to Long Island waters to recover TWA wreckage.
In 2000, conservative pundit Reed Irvine confirmed what Salinger had reported four years earlier. Irvine reported that he recorded an interview with a Navy petty officer who was on the deck of a submarine near where TWA 800 was hit by the missile. The petty officer told Irvine that he was "underneath TWA 800 when he saw a missile hit it and the 747 explode overhead."
This is fantastic
Okay we have the P3 flying so close to a 747 that the explosion hit it. FBI counting missiles on submarines, but not the PCU submarine that allegedly shot the plane down after completing an unspecified sea trial. (You know there are a lot of sea trials right?) SEAL teams planting evidence. And some goofball standing on the "deck" of a submarine directly under flight 800 like it's a WW2 sub running along on the surface or something.
This is amazing.
Well I do like the Seawolf angle. Of course it's the Seawolf. Most advanced and secret sub. Great for conspiracies. Not even commissioned yet and shooting down planes. You do know that it didn't into service until 2001 right? There were a lot of teething problems on the first of class most advanced sub ever built.
And I mean teething problems other than having a non-existent subsurface to air missile shooting down an airliner. No, like real ones. When my boat was parked next to it, we heard about the anechoic tiles peeling off at speeds I cannot mention during alpha trials.
You served on subs, I served on ASW aircraft, both of us were in at around the time of TWA 800. Like I said, what would we know?
P3 was supposedly towing a drone nearby, presumably at a lower altitude and slower than the 747. Missile decides the 747 is a preferable target, streaks by the drone and takes out the 747. Dummy warhead means that the plane breaks apart from mechanical stresses as its falling. Radar indicates it finally explodes at 7500 feet, where it is now close enough to the P3 for parts of the explosion to damage the P3 props. P3 is still in the area to observe the catastrophe as it happened.
FBI counting missiles on submarines, but not the PCU submarine that allegedly shot the plane down after completing an unspecified sea trial.
Missiles were experimental new tech, did not look like torpedoes. No torpedo was fired, all present and accounted for. Top secret missile tech non of FBIs business, not divulged to them - or, the only missile onboard was the one fired for the test, so it was already gone without ever affecting the normal missile and torpedo count.
SEAL teams planting evidence.
Now that's a stumper. Who could ever imagine a SEAL team doing such a thing, what with all their daily prayer services and feeding of the homeless.
And some goofball standing on the "deck" of a submarine directly under flight 800 like it's a WW2 sub running along on the surface or something.
As it was supposedly a test, such a goofball might well have been a captain in his conning tower, or even a conning tower video camera placed underneath to photograph the missile striking the drone for later analysis of the tracking software efficiency.
This is amazing.
Actually, it was, since they ended up shooting down a 747.
Well I do like the Seawolf angle. Of course it's the Seawolf. Most advanced and secret sub. Great for conspiracies. Not even commissioned yet and shooting down planes.
Exactly - perfect still-being-tested platform for deniability if there was a screwup, like, oh, shooting down a 747.
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Look, once you get rid of 1) the ridiculous center fuel tank spontaneously exploding for the first and only time in 747 history, and 2) you acknowledge that hundreds of people saw a missile rise up and hit the plane, and 3) the fact that a big naval exercise involving the Aegis area combat integration system was taking place at the same time, the explanation is hardly difficult or mysterious.